Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367360511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 368 str.

Ere Nokkala; Nicholas B. Miller

Opis

This book reveals the linked history between cameralism and Enlightenment across 18th-century Europe, yielding a transnational, cultural and intellectual history of political economy beyond Britain and France, focusing on the mediation of ideas about commerce, colonialism and natural law.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I: Interactions  2. On Happiness: Welfare in Cameralist Discourse in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  3. Reconciling Private Interests and the Common Good: An Essay on Cameralist Discourse  4. A Transnational German: JHG von Justi on International Trade  5. The International Politics of Cameralism: The Balance of Power and Dutch Translations of Justi  Part II: Widening Perspectives  6. Cameralism and the Politics of Populationism: Comparative Perspectives  7. Towards Ecological Statehood?: Cameralism and the Human-Nature Interface in the Eighteenth Century  Part III: Dissemination and Local Mediation  8. Cesare Beccaria as Functionary, Lecturer, Cameralist?: Interpreting Cameralism in Habsburg Lombardy  9. Cameralist Ideas in Portuguese Enlightened Reformism: The Diplomat Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho and His Circuits of Intellectual Exchange  10. Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment of the Cameral Sciences   11. Cameralism in Spain: Polizeywissenschaft and the Bourbon Reforms  12. What is Cameralism?  13. Cameralism in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Reform, Translations and Academic Mobility  14. Epilogue